The Dickinson press., 1887-08-13

leg at Chickamauga In 1Sit-5 he held command
for time of the western Confederate army. hit
was relieved from duty i'll consequence of defeats
received ut the hnntls of Gen. Thomas. He then
1879 leaving n large family of dependent children.
who were generously provided for by the citizens
of the south and elsewhere.
AT 9oclock that very morning, Gen Bill
ford, securing about with his cavalry. saw
moving "cloutls of dust from the direction
of Gainesville and Thoroughfarc Gap. Long
street, with $4,000 men, was already there.
thirty-sx hours before he was expected. AS
for Longstreeet, he heard before he reached
Gainesville the noise of the battle that had
already begun between Sigcls corps and
Jackson, and then, he says, "thc march was
quirkcned to the extent of our capacity.n
BY so o'clock T4onsstreet's line of battlo
at Grovcton was complete.
Hood's batteries were ordered into position
on the Wurrenton turnpike immediately on
their arrival.
Longstrcet and Jackson formed their line
of battle i'll tho shape OF n blunt V at Grove.
ton on the 2!'th. Jackson was on the right
arm of it, LongStrcct on the left. The disno-
sition was very advantageous one Leo
commanded in person.
Pop. had ordered Mcdowell and Fitz John
Porter to move forward toward Gainesyillo
on the morning of the 10Th. They were at
5ehsrhem church, two mil.s away. Me
Do"rll, being the senior officer, took OH HIM
self the execution of the Joint order. He gaye
Porter an order and pushed on TO the battle
field.
AT this point bcgns the controversy which
led to the historic and interminlllc Fitz John
Porter case. Mcdowell understood his order
to mean that Porter should take certain
road, where II large body of Confederates
were seen advancing. Tho words were;
You put your force in here Porter testi-
fled that lir understood the order to he that
lie should stay where he WAS
The battle of Grovcton waxed hotter and
hotter Pope was still ignorant of the arrival
of l.onssrrct i'll the afternoon But at 4:3O
lie sent an order to Fitz John Porter to come
up and go into action. Porter received IL two
hours afterward. He did not obey it. He
considered that lie could not movc his artil
lcry, and that. besides, there were too many
Confc'irrntrs about there to risk it. His sem
tence for disnl,ctllrnce and the subsequent
proceedings i'll reference to it are familiar to
oil newspaper readers.
Alb O'clock in the afternoon of tho o0th
occurred some of the most barbnro,ls lighting
known to modern times Gen. Grover. Of
llookcrs division, charged on the Confc,lcr-
ntc left, commanded by a. r. Hill. 1t was n
desperate charge. with bayonct and cubbed
muskct, against the Confederate ranks three
lines deep. After ferocous fighting Grover
was driven back. The ammunition yave ont
among Hills men. They snatchel up the
stones from piles that lay about to be used Oh
the railroad and hurled them against their
foe w hen the Union dead were nfterwurd
CAT hricd up considerable number were
found with their skulls broken.
At other points all over the field the con.
test was equally bloody.
The battle only ceased Mt 8 O'Clock Mt night
The armies slept upon the field Pope be-
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was mistake, rs the next day proved.